This is an analysis of the poem The Medusa Of Despair that begins with:
I may not mask for ever with the grace
Of woven flowers thine eyes of staring stone:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cXdXcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111110001 01010110101 1011010101 1011010111 1011011101 1111010011 1101110111 11001010101 0101110101 1100110111 1111100101 11100100100 1111000101 11010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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